#include <hallo.h>
* Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe [Mon, Mar 06 2006, 01:17:53PM]:
> V Bhanu Chandra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am thinking of designing and implementing a new native encrypting
> > file system for the linux kernel as a part of a student / research
> > project. Unlike dm-crypt/loop-AES/cryptoloop, I plan to target
> > slightly more ambitious user specifications such as: per-file random
> > secret encryption keys which are in-turn encrypted using the public
> > keys of all users having access to that filesystem object (a copy
> ...
> > Any comments / guidance / suggestions are most welcome and solicitated.
>
> Since you are talking about an encrypting filesystems but only
> referencing encrypting block devices... Have you had a look at encfs
> and/or StegFS already?
> At least one of the encrypting block devices you mentioned (I don't
> remember which one) already has the ability to have multiple keys.
IIRC encfs does something like this (global key protected with pass
phrase and optional per-file IVs). And there is a new development:
http://ecryptfs.sourceforge.net/
Eduard.
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